Antidraft



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'E. R/ANGELL ANTIDRAFT Filed Feb. 2 1922 Patented wet. id, 1924.

ILEDVVIN R. ANGELL, OF OREGON CITY, OREGON.

ANTIDRAFT.

Application filed February 27, 1922. Serial No. 539,531.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known. that I, EDWIN R. ANGELL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Oregon City, county of Clackamas, and State of Oregon,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Antidrafts, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide cheaper and more effectivemeans for closing the apertures in the floor boards of an automobilethru which the lever brakes opcrate.

It has long been a problem to prevent the heat of an engine in summertime and the cold air in winter, dust and dirt and obnoxious fumes atall times from passing thru the floor boards and into the body of thecar.

By my invention I have provided a system of brushes which will close theaperture inn mediately after the lever has been passed thru and willmaintain a complete seal for a comparatively long period of time. All ofthese points and others I have shown in the following drawings, inwhich:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing my invention applied to the footpedals of an automobile with a part broken away to show the center setof brushes in the aperture. It can readily be seen that the brushes willclose immediately after the pedal has passed and provide a sealimmediately before it;

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 andshows the construction of the brushes with a wooden spacer in betweenthe separate rows of brushes;

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 andshows how the plate forms are locked with each other;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of an individual brush unit;

Fig. 5 is a plan View of a single set of brushes with parts broken awayto shou inside details and illustrates how the emer gency brake of anauto can. readily pass thru the brushes and they can still maintain aclose seal to prevent a draft or any dust from entering into the car;and.

Fig. 6 is a cross section detail view taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5and shows some other details of construction.

The brushes are made in single units. The bristles a are preferably madewith a spacer 6 between the separate layers so that there is no bulgingas there would be otherwise. They are compressed and held in place bymeans of a metal strip 0 which holds the bristles in place against thespacer strips. In the construction shown in Fig. 1 a stamped form d ismade which has apertures e which are spaced so as to accommodate themovement of the pedals. A smaller piece oil-formed material f closes theend of the apertures in this particular design and holds the form plated in place and prevents it from spreading apart. The whole plate (Z isfastened to the car boards by means of screws or nails 9. The singleplate It shown in Fig. 5 containing an aperture 2' can be fastened tothe floor boards with screws 3' or the like. The apertures e and '71 areso spaced that the pedals lc will pass down the center lines 8 whichseparate the ends of the two separate brushes of the set. The aperturesc extend a trifle longer than the length of the motion of the pedals isso that there are always brushes beyond the end of travel of the same.It can readily be seen by looking in thesingle unit apertures i which isshown in Fig. 5, that the lever Z will pass directly on the centerlinebetween the faces of the brushes and thus a minimum amount of wearwill be effected on both of the brushes. There will also be no saggingor distortion of the bristles and thus my improved aperture closingdevice will be effective for a considerable period of time. This hasbeen the trouble with other devices which attempt to eliminate the draftas soon as they become distorted and worn and therefore do noteffectually prevent the objections which they were designed to do.

i I claim:

1. In an automobile vehicle in which the floor boards have apertures inwhich levers work,- a plurality of brush units each unit separate, thebrush units positioned so that the faces of two brushes abut on thecenter line of travel of said lever in said aperture, two brush unitsconstituting a set to close a single aperture, sets of brushes held inposition and enclosed by metal forms having suitable openings, and meansfor fastening said forms to the floor boards.

2. In an automobile vehicle in which the floor boards have apertures inwhich levers work, a plurality of brush units, each unit separate andbound with a metal strip and the rows of bristles separated by spacers,the brush units positioned so that the faces of two brushes abut on thecenter line of travel of said lever in said aperture, two brush unitsconstituting a toclose a single aperture, sets of brushes held inposition and enclosed by metal forms having suitable openings, and meansfor fastening said forms to'the floor boards;

3. In an automobile'vehicle in which thefioor boardshave apertures inwhich levers 1 work, a plurality of brushun'i-ts, each unit separate andbound with a metal stri,

her {of brush units'con ituting a set to close,

and

the "rowsofi-bri'stles' "sepa'rated by spacers, the

brash units positioned 'so that the faces of two brushes' abut on thecenter line, of trayel' OTf'Sfi-Td lever 1n'*'sa1d aperture, an evennuma; sing-1e aperturefsets: brushes-held; in position and enGloseCl bymetal f'f'ormslhaving suitable? openings, and means for fasteningfarmers the-floorboardsf 7 4 ;1n*coinbi-nation'with the foot pedal ofautomobile, and the amt boardhaving s'ldts throagh which the saidIpeda'ls extend, a

frame' 'ex 'tendingaroundthe slots in the foot y board, aiserie's offlexible bristles secured; to

the frame' an dthe'said slots. i "f5.f'In{ combinaftion an automobilefoot peda wee in me a 0 in. he oo board of an automobile, a framesecured to the foot board around the said slot, bristles securedto thesaid frame at the longitudinal sides thereof and extending in oppositedirections toward each other to meet in the 'center of the said slotwhereby the slot is normally covered, the said foot pedal extendingthrough the 'slot and thereby displacing certain of the said bristles.

6. A devlce of the character described comprising a rectangular frame,brlstles secured to' opposite sides of the frame an'dpexand means tomaintain the opposite end of the frame in position.

EDV VIN R. ANGELL.

